Kit O'Malley is back - tougher, smarter and more dangerous than ever.
Kit is on the scene when a corpse is found at her local bar. The corpse is that of Gerry Anders, the late and not very lamented nephew of Marjorie "Queenie" Riley, head of one of Melbourne's major crime families.
Kit's first concern is to protect her friend and co-owner of the bar, Angie, from repercussions. Then John Marek, head of Homicide, draws on their long acquaintance and asks her help with the crime. After a visit to the matriarch Queenie, Kit finds herself reluctantly in at the deep end.
Is it a simple case of payback between two major crime families? Or is there a more sinister third party involved? With kidnappers and serial killers on the loose, Kit has her hands full struggling to stay on top of events that are fast moving beyond her control . . .
